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Nation Quotes
"I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate."
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"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."
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"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
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"The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."
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"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."
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"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment."
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"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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"It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country."
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"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."
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"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
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"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
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"Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive."
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"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country."
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"Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed."
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"Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers."
36
"To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve."
36
"But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation."
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"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."
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"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation."
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"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
36
"We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges."
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"The country is in an extraordinary ferment."
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"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress."
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"The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire."
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"The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."
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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
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"We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country."
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"We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies."
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"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
36
"Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much."
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"I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there."
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